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Since 1991, the Malloura Valley Survey, part of the Athienou Archaeological Project, has studied the shifting patterns of land use in central Cyprus. The survey work identified 30 loci of human activity in a rural setting midway between Nikosia and Larnaka, major population centers from antiquity to the modern period. The sporadic scatter of artifacts on the surface indicated a low-level but persistent pattern of land use through most periods. As a project that incorporates material from all...
A History of Landscape Transformation and Environmental Change across the Ascope Irrigation System of the Chicama Valley. (2017)
The sequence of landscape transformation across the area of the Ascope Canal System in the Chicama Valley involved both natural and anthropogenic events and processes that unfolded in nonlinear ways. We argue that early events were crucial in determining transformations later in the sequence. In the arid environment of the North Coast, water availability plays a key role in landscape histories. This paper highlights evidence for El Niño events, water management, and changing ecologies for the...
An Integrative Archaeological and Geomorphological Approach to Understanding Site Distributions and Prehistoric Settlement Patterns along the Little River, East Tennessee (2015)
Over 15 years of archaeological research at the University of Tennessee’s East Tennessee Research and Education Center, Blount County, Tennessee, has uncovered a number of archaeological sites that range in age from Early Archaic to Mississippian. Located within a complex alluvial system at the confluence of Ellejoy Creek and the Little River, the study area was part of a prehistoric trail system through the Great Smoky Mountains. Research at the University of Tennessee’s Archaeological...
Land Degradation at Betty’s Hope Historical Plantation, Antigua (2015)
The islands of the British West Indies in the eastern Caribbean have been subjected to continuous sugarcane farming since the 17th century. Current land degradation in Antigua has been attributed to centuries of intensive monocropping. However, recent scholarly discussion of the concept of landesque capital challenges the idea that long-term cultivation is a main driver of landscape degradation. The Betty’s Hope plantation on Antigua operated from 1651-1944 and currently faces problems of land...
Landscape and Dietary Change in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca (2017)
This paper presents the results of an isotopic study of human dietary change during the Formative period (2000 BCE-300 CE) in the lower Río Verde Valley of Oaxaca. Approximately 60 individuals were sampled for δ13C and δ15N using both teeth and long bones. The study examines trends in the consumption of maize and marine/estuarine resources relative to regional environmental change. Interdisciplinary research along the drainage system indicates that environmental change in the lower Verde was...
Landscape Change at the Ceremonial Center of Tibes in Puerto Rico: A Late Holocene Hurricane Flood Event? (2016)
This paper presents the results of a geoarchaeological study of the depositional history at the Ceremonial Center of Tibes in Puerto Rico. Geoarchaeological study of the sediment and soil relationship at Tibes reveals evidence of Holocene paleoflooding that occurred between AD 800 and AD 900. This flood event caused significant changes to the cultural landscape at Tibes. These site formation processes include river migration farther west and south of the paleochannel, deposition of reworked...
The Role of Bronze Age People in the Post-Bronze Age Landscape: An Integrated Geoarchaeological Approach to Site Formation at Mycenae, Greece (2016)
While human-landscape interaction has been a key question in the archaeology of early complex societies, little research has focused on the effect of occupation on the landscape post-abandonment. At Mycenae, a Late Bronze Age citadel in southern Greece, two distinct deposits, one anthropogenic and one natural, were identified as covering archaeological remains dating to the 12th century, B.C. Here, we present an integrated method combining micromorphology, Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR), and...